InMon Corporation - Fact Sheet

Company Overview

InMon Corp. is the leading supplier of packet sampling technology for monitoring traffic on high-speed switched networks. InMon's patented sFlow® technology and comprehensive traffic analysis products defend against threats to network availability and security; ensuring the delivery of critical voice, email, web, database and other services that are essential for an organisation to function.

Technology

InMon's sFlow technology has emerged as the leading multi-vendor standard monitoring high-speed switched and routed networks. sFlow is lightweight enough to embed in every switch port, from layer 2 departmental switches through to core BGP routers, and scalable enough to provide continuous, real-time traffic monitoring of tens of thousands of ports at 10 Gigabit speeds and beyond.

Partnerships

InMon Corp works with leading switch and router vendors to enhance their networking solutions with comprehensive traffic management based on sFlow. The first sFlow enabled devices started shipping in 2002 and now sFlow is available in equipment from many leading vendors, including: Alcatel (CGEP: PA, NYSE: ALA), Allied Telesis, Extreme Networks (NASDAQ:EXTR), Force10 Networks, Foundry Networks (NASDAQ: FDRY), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), Hitachi (NYSE: HIT) and NEC (NASDAQ: NIPNY).

Products

InMon's Traffic Sentinel is a comprehensive traffic analysis product, which makes use of the sFlow technology to provide "always-on" monitoring of tens of thousands of switch ports, producing real-time and historical reports of application-layer traffic flows across the whole network. The InMon Traffic Sentinel is used to:

  • Enforce security policies
  • Identify suspicious behavior
  • Quickly respond to security threats
  • Ensure quality of service
  • Account for network usage
  • Reduce network costs

Traffic Sentinel makes use of embedded instrumentation within switches and routers; in addition to sFlow, which provides the most complete functionality, InMon Traffic Sentinel can also monitor networks using other embedded traffic monitoring technologies, including IPFIX and vendor specific technologies such as Cisco NetFlow, Junper j-flow, Riversone LFAP and HP Extended-RMON. Traffic Sentinel's use of embedded instrumentation significantly lowers the cost of network monitoring by eliminating the need for expensive probes.

Customers

InMon's products have been purchased by over 300 leading Enterprise, Service Provider, Educational, Healthcare, Government and Media customers around the world. InMon's customers include Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Verio, Stanford University, BBC, NASA and Orange County.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California.

Management

InMon Corp's management team has extensive experience in network instrumentation, control systems and monitoring systems design. They have worked closely with large Enterprise customers and Service Providers, and with network equipment vendors in the design and development of manageable network solutions.

Press Contact

Sonia Panchen
sonia.panchen@inmon.com
(530) 621-0362